Cancer Truth Note: #123

by | Apr 4, 2023 | Cancer Truth Note

No matter how much we learn, there are always new and crazy things that pop up. 

Sometimes I think I have heard everything. Then I remember the more I learn the more there is to learn. I have interviewed people from different countries with different types of cancer. There are always new things to learn.

I was talking to the anesthesiologist before my procedure and he asked about some obscure genetic condition that causes your temperature to increase significantly. I was like, ummmm, no. I have a lot of challenges, some of them like celiac genetically inherited, but anesthesia and I get along just fine. Then I said, “Tell me more about this condition. I learned something new today.” He then said he has never encountered it but he always asks.

Have you learned a crazy new thing lately?

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